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stop all investigation. In case of non-compliance, detain and convey to Tula. They are demanding that the arrested former chairman of the Executive Committee and the Cheka* be sent there as well, pointing to the necessity of tribunal review. For my part, I request that you, in order to prevent impending events in the province, issue an order for the continuation of the commission's work and the dispatch of those arrested by it to Moscow, not to Tula. As an old communist, I point out to you the necessity of this and take responsibility upon myself for such a communication to you, otherwise the provincial executive committee will suppress everything as before. With me at the apparatus is the head of the provincial department of justice and a member of the commission of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, to whom I have proposed that we approach the apparatus together without carrying out the provincial executive committee's directive until your response on this question. We are leaving urgently for the front. I request that you give us an answer immediately, which is necessary for both the commission's work and the representatives of the provincial executive committee. If you require a precise listing of the work of the provincial and district executive committees, I will send it urgently by courier to you in Moscow. I await your answer at the apparatus. I repeat, the situation is very serious.

**Panyushkin**

Novosilya, to Panyushkin.

Send me the details of what you are reporting in writing. One should not tie up the telegraph wire for long. I will speak today with Dzerzhinsky and with others as necessary. Until I speak with him I cannot answer anything. I remind you once more that your main task is to advance toward the Eastern Front as quickly as possible. The slightest delay is inadmissible.

**Lenin**

What should the commission and the representatives of the provincial executive committee do, who are asking me to make the same communication to you on this matter very briefly. I am executing the assigned duties urgently. We will be on time.

**Panyushkin**

I repeat that until I speak with the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs I cannot answer anything². It would be far more useful to send an exact telegram signed by members of the commission to Dzerzhinsky's address, a copy to me, than to tie up the direct wire.

**Lenin**

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¹ V. L. Panyushkin was appointed in April 1918 as extraordinary military commissar in Tula province for the struggle against counter-revolution; he commanded armed workers' and sailors' detachments, was on the Eastern Front, and was subsequently appointed extraordinary military commissar of the Volga region and the Urals for the struggle against counter-revolution.

² See V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 50, p. 109.

* Apparently should read: "Cheka."

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# LENIN MISCELLANY

## NOTE TO B. M. ELTSIN

[3 July 1918]

1) Of the three points in the introduction, strike out the first and the last.

2) Abandon all thoughts about strengthening the dictatorship of the proletariat.

3) Propose no changes whatsoever to the constitution.

4) Shift the center of gravity on this question at the congress to precise and complete study of the actual state of affairs.

¹ V. I. Lenin's note was received in the Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the CPSU from A. D. Tsyurupa with his inscription: "Note to Eltsin" and numerical calculations.

It was not possible to establish which document is being referred to in V. I. Lenin's note.

B. M. Eltsin — chairman of the Ufa provincial executive committee.

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## NOTE BY N. K. KRUPSKAYA

6. VII. 1918

To N. K. Ulyanova

Receive and hear out the bearer, Comrade Gol'tsman², who recommends a valuable pedagogical figure — a Pole in Switzerland³ — according to his account.

**Lenin**

¹ N. K. Krupskaya — at this time a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Education.

² A. Z. Golytsman — member of the Bolshevik party from April 1917. After the October Revolution — worker in the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. From 1917 to 1920 — member of the Central Committee of the Union of Metalworkers.

³ Apparently this refers to V. K. Taratute, who was in emigration from 1909 and returned to Russia in 1919.